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Show profit; he further Is aware of tho fact that If the. Light company dies not Imlld, some other Interests will ana then, a great opportunity shnll have teen, lost. la California gas stoves are looked upon as indispensable. Tbpy aro money-savers and afford tho Wdco-wIvcb Wdco-wIvcb much comfort, hi the summer time and in fact all the year tbruugh. Mr. Decker, coming direct irom California, Cali-fornia, where thousand's of ri? atones are in service, undoubtedly has been Impressed wiih the absence of - gas and gas stoves in this cirv. and his lecomme.idation to his comnar.y, it i. fair to assume, has been in tavor of the Immediate building of a gas plant and the laying of gai ra?.fS. The time ia coining when Ogden. m stead of using coal hauled by railroads rail-roads some 400 or 500 miles Irom the coal Colds of Wyoming, will be heated by gaa generated at tho coal fields and piped in big main l this city. The government experiment in luel and gas for heating and power purposes point unmistakably to an era of gas, when the gas engine and gas stove will supplant s'.im engines en-gines and the direct use o coal lor heating. OGDEN'S GAS PLANT. The Salt Lake office of tho Utah i Light &, Railway company hns been i furnished with data upon wnich to j; base a decision as to whether the f Ogden gas plant of the company is to l be modernized aud enlarged or allow- I ed to fall Into disuse. I As this paper announced wben Mr. Decker took charge ot the loo.l office of the Light company, the manager j lias devoted much of his lite to gas j plant construcUon and management j i.nd he is an expert m that line. Since coming here he has canvassed a part I cl the city, has explained the use of gas for cooldng purposes and rna re-i re-i ceived much encouragement, lit. I convinced Ogden will sustain a modern mod-ern gas plant; he knows i.he present li plant Is worse than useless no doubt, ?i is a source of expense rather than |